With the Committee on Climate Change preparing to submit its final evidence to government ahead of the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment in January 2017, this seminar will discuss the policy priorities for climate change adaptation and planning in the next five-year cycle.
Sessions will bring out the latest thinking on flood and infrastructure strategy, following the ring-fencing of at least £2.3bn in flood defence spending up to 2021, and examine issues surrounding urban planning and overheating following the Parliamentary Built Environment Committee’s critical report on land use and long-term housing goals.
Delegates will also examine the priorities for the National Adaptation Programme ahead of its review in 2018, with sessions focusing on the management of key infrastructure assets, addressing the risks of climate change to ecosystem services and to public health, and the opportunities to integrate sustainable planning into business practices.
We are pleased to include a presentation from Professor the Lord Krebs, Chair, Adaptation Sub-Committee, Committee on Climate Change; Claudine Blamey, Head of Sustainability, The Crown Estate; Neil Davies, Deputy Director of Strategy Development, Flood and Coastal Risk Management, Environment Agency; Professor Richard Betts, Head of Climate Impacts Research, Met Office; Catriona Cliffe, Head of Sustainability, Connect Plus; Dr Hugh Ellis, Head of Policy, Town and Country Planning Association; Neil Ferris, Director of City and Environmental Services, City of York Council; Scott Mathieson, Regulation and Commercial Director, ScottishPower and Roger Street, Director, Adaptation Science, UKCIP, together with a speaker confirmed from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
We are pleased that Rebecca Pow MP, Member, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee and Member, Environmental Audit Select Committee and Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, Shadow Spokesperson, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs have agreed to chair at this seminar.
Sessions will bring out the latest thinking on flood and infrastructure strategy, following the ring-fencing of at least £2.3bn in flood defence spending up to 2021, and examine issues surrounding urban planning and overheating following the Parliamentary Built Environment Committee’s critical report on land use and long-term housing goals.
Delegates will also examine the priorities for the National Adaptation Programme ahead of its review in 2018, with sessions focusing on the management of key infrastructure assets, addressing the risks of climate change to ecosystem services and to public health, and the opportunities to integrate sustainable planning into business practices.
We are pleased to include a presentation from Professor the Lord Krebs, Chair, Adaptation Sub-Committee, Committee on Climate Change; Claudine Blamey, Head of Sustainability, The Crown Estate; Neil Davies, Deputy Director of Strategy Development, Flood and Coastal Risk Management, Environment Agency; Professor Richard Betts, Head of Climate Impacts Research, Met Office; Catriona Cliffe, Head of Sustainability, Connect Plus; Dr Hugh Ellis, Head of Policy, Town and Country Planning Association; Neil Ferris, Director of City and Environmental Services, City of York Council; Scott Mathieson, Regulation and Commercial Director, ScottishPower and Roger Street, Director, Adaptation Science, UKCIP, together with a speaker confirmed from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
We are pleased that Rebecca Pow MP, Member, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee and Member, Environmental Audit Select Committee and Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, Shadow Spokesperson, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs have agreed to chair at this seminar.
